Thursday, April 8, 2010

uncomfortable the bourbon is 100 proof

When first reading a play we all start with a clean page in our minds. As we get further into the play that page fills up. The focus on our posts is on all the things which are highlighted and underlined. In a wild, screaming burst these posts are written and looked over. These assignments make good on our raw desire to understand and be satisfied with ourselves, getting answers only from questions.
Each post, if you can believe it, if carefully edited before it's posted. Hazing of intentions is often a problem initially: floating ideas can be a struggle to harden alone; add into hte situation the idea that most people are going to be writing with you (others reading you), there is always that need to make sure the topic you're addressing is interesting enough. Communication is also a huge worry; can someone be sure that they're writing effectively?
Has the nature of these posts changed as class and time have continued? That question is slightly impossible to answer, to anyone's satisfaction anyway. Every post is different, of course. The topics always differ, the writing is still mine. I don't really thing the idea of growth can exist in this situation. The idea motivating this blog is independent enough for me to rely on my own instincts when it comes to what I actually decide to blog on. Class has warmed me enough to Shakespeare's work, allowing me to know a point of interest (out loud, right away) when I see one. As far as the subject actually chosen, I just go by the bones. My only option really. There has to be a lack of something (whether a certain point in the plot just doesn't feel right within the context it's written in, or whether something is just overdone) that makes the mind stop and focus on whatever isn't workin, telling. These choices I make are based on whatever jumps out, things which seem to offer a good about to write about (things that seem to have a life of their own). Besides those which were just mentioned, there is no real connection I'm trying to make between these blogs. If the topics I'm picking ae similar in nature, I'm blind to it (and would have to apologize for the string of boring posts.
These posts usually begin with a broad topic, eventually whittling itself down to a solid post by the end of the post (that's the goal anyway). The rhythm, don't know what else to call it, of my posts come out of the bit of editing that is done. Not much focus on the first run through. This stream of conscious narration is then dried out a little, picking up the key points throughout the original, and every solid bit that supports those points.
These assignments are easy enough. Creating our own jumping off point, and jumping off. The anchor which gives these posts their structure is the tests. Goes without saying, although it is going to be said, that even with something as loose as my brokenly arranged Shakespeare posts need something solid to work off of. This explains my current struggle with THIS assignment.

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